Visual notifications

Visual notifications are a means of unobtrusively informing you when things happen, for example when you receive a message. In their default configuration, they fade into the top-right corner of your screen for a moment and then fade out again.

Adium features comprehensive support for visual notifications by ways of OS X's very own Notification Center (on OS X 10.8 and later), third-party software Growl as well as built-in notifications called "Mist" (on OS 10.7 and older).

This page explains the three different notification mechanisms mentioned above. See Events on how to tell Adium when to display visual notifications.

Notification Center support (OS X 10.8 and later)

Growl support

The third-party application Growl.app has been around about as long as Adium itself – a long time before Apple introduced "Notification Center" (NC) in OS X 10.8 ("Mountain Lion").

While Growl.app is the obvious solution for users on previous versions of OS X, it also has a lot to offer to OS X users on 10.8, especially in the way of customisability and extendability. For example, there are dozens of different styles to choose from.